[exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I just got a freebsd box - and would like to try exim on it (I've been an exim user for 3 years on 2 rh and 2 deb boxes) I'm hoping someone can help me here with my migration... There's an exim port, I think i understand how to install it... But do I have to do anything special to remove sendm

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Jörg Reisenweber
Hi Jonathan, Am 22.07.2005 um 01:35 schrieb Jonathan Vanasco: There's an exim port, I think i understand how to install it... But do I have to do anything special to remove sendmail ? make sure you read /usr/local/share/doc/exim/POST-INSTALL-NOTES. Jörg.-- ## List details at http://www.ex

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Jonathan Vanasco on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 19:35:50 -0400 > I just got a freebsd box - and would like to try exim on it (I've been > an exim user for 3 years on 2 rh and 2 deb boxes) > > I'm hoping someone can help me here with my migration... Sure. Exim on FreeBSD rocks. > There's an ex

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Yann, Yann Golanski, 22.07.2005 (d.m.y): > Quoth Jonathan Vanasco on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 19:35:50 -0400 > > > But do I have to do anything special to remove sendmail ? > > Put the following in /etc/rc.conf: > sendmail_enable="NONE" > exim_enable="YES" > > > And is there

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Matt Fretwell
Christian Schmidt wrote: > > That's about it. Of course, all the little nice things (existat, > > etc...) have to be installed as well but you should know how to do > > that. > > IIRC there's still another configuration file on FreeBSD that contains > several definitions where to find the "sendm

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread John Oxley
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 11:00:38AM +0100, Matt Fretwell wrote: > > IIRC there's still another configuration file on FreeBSD that contains > > several definitions where to find the "sendmail" binary - which is in > > this case the exim binary. > > I'm not sure, but I think this file was /etc/mailer.

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread jonathan vanasco
Thanks to all! That was a relatively mindless install Sendmail is fully dead and exim is running. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth jonathan vanasco on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:14:32 -0400 > Thanks to all! > That was a relatively mindless install That's why I love FreeBSD. It's easy to use and ports are great. Wait till you need to update your system: portupdate does it all for you. It's great. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Randy Bush
> make sure you read /usr/local/share/doc/exim/POST-INSTALL-NOTES. which needs an examle of how to hack /etc/mail/mailer.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/mailer.conf,v 1.3 2002/04/05 04:25:12 gshapiro Exp $ # # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail # sendmail

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim hoststat/usr/local/sbin/exim purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim shouldn't those lines be more like: newaliases/usr/bin/true mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp hoststa

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Matt Fretwell
Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > > > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/exim > > mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim > > hoststat/usr/local/sbin/exim > > purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim > > shouldn't those lines be more like: > > newaliases/usr/bin/true > mailq

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Jörg Reisenweber
Hi Randy, Am 22.07.2005 um 18:05 schrieb Randy Bush: make sure you read /usr/local/share/doc/exim/POST-INSTALL-NOTES. which needs an examle of how to hack /etc/mail/mailer.conf you're absolutely right, my bad. I thought I remembered that the modifications to mailer.conf stood in POST-IN

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-23 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Vanasco, 22.07.2005 (d.m.y): > >newaliases /usr/local/sbin/exim > >mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim > >hoststat/usr/local/sbin/exim > >purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim > > shouldn't those lines be more like: > > newaliases/usr/bin

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-24 Thread Randy Bush
>>> newaliases /usr/local/sbin/exim >>> mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim >>> hoststat/usr/local/sbin/exim >>> purgestat /usr/local/sbin/exim >> >> shouldn't those lines be more like: >> newaliases /usr/bin/true >> mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp >>

Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

2005-07-24 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Randy, Randy Bush, 24.07.2005 (d.m.y): > > AFAIK exim does recognize how it was called, i.e. it evaluates $0 and > > shows the correxponding behaviour. For example it runs "itself" with > > the option "-bp" when it's being invoked with the "mailq" command. > > yep. hence my original sugge